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Agitation resulting from active worry
Answer for the clue "Agitation resulting from active worry ", 7 letters:
swither
Word definitions for swither in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret , stew , sweat , lather ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (''Scots and dialects'') To be indecisive or in a state of confusion; to dither.
Usage examples of swither.
Once in the living room, Hamish looked immediately to the window, hoping suddenly that in all this mess, Swithers had kept that flower pot.
Finlay Swithers has been brought in for questioning, and his wife, too.
Finlay Swithers insured his wife for one hundred thousand pounds, but stopped paying after she left, so the policy was cancelled.
Finlay Swithers stood there, a petrol can beside him, trying to beat off Lugs, who had sunk his teeth into his leg.
He marched Swithers into the police station, into the cell, and locked him in.
Then he went to the cell, and while Hamish took notes, he charged Finlay Swithers with attempted murder and arson.
The petrol-soaked bales of straw had to be photographed and taken away for evidence, along with the can of petrol Hamish had found Swithers with and the empty cans of petrol that were found in his truck outside.
Harrison, Finlay Swithers was once charged with wife beating, and Maisie Gough is new to me.
Finlay Swithers, well, it was probably that charge of wife beating, but who is Maisie Gough?
Alfazzian connected I did not see the face that gave women the hot swithers, though I had always thought him more pretty than handsome.
I gathered that Stratos and Tony were livid with Josef for losing his head and shooting Mark, and that Josef was all for cutting their losses and killing me as well, then and there, but Stratos was swithering a bit, and Tony and Sofia were dead against it.
Justice Swithering, and a third, of William and his mother, taken in the street.
I dare say it was quite a piece of politics in the pigsty whether to come or not to come, and the husband long swithered between curiosity and age, till curiosity conquered, and they came, and in the midst of that last merrymaking death tapped him on the shoulder.
I knew it was a lunatic thought, but I found myself scampering through anyway, pulling up by the after companion, swithering this way and that, cursing feebly to myself and racking my brains over what to do next.
I gathered that Stratos and Tony were livid with Josef for losing his head and shooting Mark, and that Josef was all for cutting their losses and killing me as well, then and there, but Stratos was swithering a bit, and Tony and Sofia were dead against it.